The dataset currently comprises:
Editors
Journals
Publishers
You can get the whole dataset as a *.csv-file at Zenodo.
We also recommend Open Editors Plus with an expanded dataset and interactive dashboards!
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| Name | Affiliation | Country | Role | Journal | Publisher | Date |
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Recent Changes
Latest Additions
| Name | Affiliation | Journal | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wei-Qiu Chen PhD | Zhejiang University, Hangz … | Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica (Springer Nature) | 2026-06-20 |
| Prof. Victor A. Eremeyev | University of Cagliari, Ca … | Acta Mechanica (Springer Nature) | 2026-06-20 |
| Prof. Xin Zhouping PhD | Department of Mathematics, … | Acta Mathematicae Applicat … (Springer Nature) | 2026-06-20 |
| Marsal Sanches MD, PhD | The University of Texas He … | Academic Psychiatry (Springer Nature) | 2026-06-20 |
| Sallie De Golia MD, MPH | Stanford University, Stanf … | Academic Psychiatry (Springer Nature) | 2026-06-20 |
| Eduardo C. Humes MD, PhD | Faculdade de Medicina, Uni … | Academic Psychiatry (Springer Nature) | 2026-06-20 |
| Edson Prestes | Universidade Federal do Ri … | AI and Ethics (Springer Nature) | 2026-06-20 |
| Kathryn A. Conrad | University of Kansas, Lawr … | AI and Ethics (Springer Nature) | 2026-06-20 |
| Ian Knack, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE | Clarkson University | Journal of Cold Regions Engineering (ASCE) | 2026-06-20 |
| Derya Baran | King Abdullah University o … | Energy and Environmental Science (Royal Society of Chemistry) | 2026-06-20 |
Latest Removals
| Name | Affiliation | Journal | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheila K. Singh MD, PhD | — | Acta Neuropathologica Comm … (Springer Nature) | 2026-06-20 |
| Weiqiu Chen PhD | Zhejiang University | Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica (Springer Nature) | 2026-06-20 |
| Victor A. Eremeyev | University of Cagliari | Acta Mechanica (Springer Nature) | 2026-06-20 |
| Prof. Zhouping Xin PhD | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Acta Mathematicae Applicat … (Springer Nature) | 2026-06-20 |
| Sallie De Golla MD, MPH | Stanford University | Academic Psychiatry (Springer Nature) | 2026-06-20 |
| Christina Girgis MD | Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital | Academic Psychiatry (Springer Nature) | 2026-06-20 |
| Dr. Olivia McDermott | National University of Ireland | The TQM Journal (Emerald) | 2026-06-20 |
| Dr Franklin Nakpodia | Durham University | Sustainability Accounting, … (Emerald) | 2026-06-20 |
| Dr Jamie McDonald | The University of Texas at … | Qualitative Research in Or … (Emerald) | 2026-06-20 |
| Dr. Alex Faseruk | — | Managerial Finance (Emerald) | 2026-06-20 |
Recent Journal-Level Changes
2026-06-20
- Academic Psychiatry (Springer Nature): +3 added, −2 removed
- Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica, English Series (Springer Nature): +1 added, −1 removed
- Acta Mechanica (Springer Nature): +1 added, −1 removed
- Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica (Springer Nature): +1 added, −1 removed
- Acta Neuropathologica Communications (Springer Nature): −1 removed
- AI and Ethics (Springer Nature): +2 added
- Benchmarking: An International Journal (Emerald): −1 removed
- Energy and Environmental Science (Royal Society of Chemistry): +2 added
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal (Emerald): +1 added
- International Journal of Manpower (Emerald): +2 added
- International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management (Emerald): +1 added, −1 removed
- International Marketing Review (Emerald): +1 added
- Journal of Cold Regions Engineering (ASCE): +1 added
- Journal of International Cooperation in Education (Emerald): +1 added
- Journal of Islamic Marketing (Emerald): −1 removed
- Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (Emerald): +1 added, −1 removed
- Managerial Finance (Emerald): +1 added, −2 removed
- PLOS Complex Systems (PLOS): +1 added
- Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal (Emerald): −1 removed
- Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal (Emerald): +2 added, −1 removed
Data and Methods
Open Editors collects publicly available information about the editors and editorial boards of scholarly journals through a technique called webscraping, whereby a script accesses the websites of the publishers to extract the relevant information. The codes (programmed in Python; earlier versions in R) are available at GitHub.
Currently, only journals of the following 26 publishers were taken into account:
- Allied Academies (part of OMICS, is probably predatory)
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- American Society of Chemical Engineers (ASCE)
- BioMedCentral (part of Springer Nature in 2026 edition)
- Brill (not in 2026 edition)
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- eLife
- Elsevier (not in 2026 edition)
- Emerald
- Frontiers
- Hindawi (not in 2026 edition)
- IGI Global (not in 2026 edition)
- iMedPub (part of OMICS, is probably predatory)
- Inderscience
- John Benjamins (not in 2026 edition)
- Karger
- Longdom (part of OMICS, is probably predatory)
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
- PeerJ
- Pleiades
- Public Library of Science (PLOS)
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- SAGE
- Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP, is probably predatory)
- SciTechnol (part of OMICS, is probably predatory)
- Springer Nature
For more details, please see the paper which outlines the method and data sample with greater precision. It also discusses issues of diversity and intersectionality; of linking the dataset with PIDs (persistent identifiers) such as ORCID and ROR; and of current limitations regarding the scope and coverage of the data.
A data dump from March 2026 is available as a CSV file on at Zenodo. Earlier versions (2021 and 2022) are available as two CSV-files of ca. 128 MB on GitHub (in the "Output"-folder and the 2022-subfolder).
Latest Updates
- March 2026: An updated dataset (the 2026 version) was added to this website.
- August 2024: The City of Vienna (Stadt Wien Kultur) supports the re-scraping of Open Editors.
- May 2023: Open Editors received the Austrian Librarians' Association's Bruno Bauer-Prize for Innovation.
- October 2022: A blog post in LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog covers Open Editors.
- October 2022: Our paper is published in Research Evaluation.
- February 2022: The data-collection was reiterated. The new dataset, which has ca. 100.000 more observations than the first round of scraping, includes editorial data from journals of four additional publishers (BioMedCentral, eLife, PeerJ, and Springer Nature) now.
- May 2021: Ca. 20.000 data points from five publishers (Allied Academies, iMedPub, Longdom, SCIRP, SciTechnol – four of them belonging to OMICS) comprising ca. 750 journals were put online.
- April 2021: Nature Index reports about Open Editors.
- February 2021: The dataset was put online.
- December 2020: Data were scraped.
Feel Free to Re-Use the Data!
Open Editors is distributed under a Creative Commons-license (CC0). You can re-use the dataset or its codes freely. If you wish to attribute the original data-collection to Open Editors, you could perhaps include the following reference:
Supported by ...
This project was made possible through a fellowship ("Freies Wissen") from Wikimedia Deutschland in 2020/21.
In addition, my other side-project OOIR (the Observatory of International Research) kindly provides the webspace for this project. :-)
In 2024, the City of Vienna (Stadt Wien Kultur) supported the re-scraping of the datasets (for the 2026 version).